jeremy c Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Passamezzo Moderno, founded in 2005, is a period ensemble that performs the music of three centuries, from 1530 to 1830, and specializes in the virtuoso instrumental music of the 17th century. Ostinato! features popular bass lines from Italy and Germany in the early 17th century. Bass lines included are Ruggerio, La Monica, and La Bergamasca, as well as passamezzos, chaconnes, and passacaglias. Composers include Tarquinio Merula, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Salamone Rossi and others. It's next Saturday. Maybe I'd learn something "new". Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally Malone Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Jeremy, or could it be that you will learn something "old". Wally I have basses to play, places to be and good music to make! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted June 20, 2009 Author Share Posted June 20, 2009 And maybe something borrowed and blue as well. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMPires Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 Thought you were married already www.myspace.com/davidbassportugal "And then the magical unicorn will come prancing down the rainbow and we'll all join hands for a rousing chorus of Kumbaya." - by davio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcr Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 My whole career is about learning something new from something old. Definitely go! And report back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottom End Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I wish I could go. As long as you think you can learn from someone else, you're not going to grow old, or stale as a player. "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.'-Hamlet Guitar solos last 30 seconds, the bass line lasts for the whole song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I'd go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jode Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Definitely go. "I had to have something, and it wasn't there. I couldn't go down the street and buy it, so I built it." Les Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlrush Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Yes, and then tell us all about it. Sounds interesting indeed. Visit my band's new web site. www.themojoroots.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxofunk Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Aye. - Matt W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric VB Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Hold out for some Johannes Matthias Sperger, Domenico Dragonetti and Giovanni Bottesini for some 18th-19th century fireworks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I recently had to pass up a gig with a pro chamber ensemble doing forgotten works. If I have the option, I'll never pass up an opportunity to play or listen to a concert like that again after hearing my friend's report (I passed it on to him). Hope it's as enjoyable as it sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 My wife and I went to the concert last night. We enjoyed it very much. The players were very good and it was a kind of music I was not really very familiar with: late 17th century music written at the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque period. All the pieces were based on ostinatos (repeating bass lines) over repeating chord changes. That part would be familiar to all of us. Many pieces had similar progressions: Am G F E and we've all played songs like that. The harpsichord player was reading from chord changes (which in that style is called figured bass) and was improvising his part. Since this music came from the days before the invention of classical harmony as we know it now, the pieces were not really based on chords but rather on simultaneously moving melody lines. It's hard for us to hear that nowadays and not hear the chord (at least it's hard for me) and some of the implied chords were pretty wild. The leader of the group played the dulcian which is a precursor of the bassoon and was a virtuoso (the two violinists who played three hundred year old instruments with gut strings and the harpsichordist were not too shabby either). The leader was also a musicologist and gave lots of explanations and answered all my questions with great charm and knowledge. My wife and I, both in our 60's, were the youngest ones at the concert. Of course, Wilco was playing a few blocks away, so maybe that's where the younger generations went. Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I suspect a rhetorical question but you should tell us what, having been there, it was like. d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric VB Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 Sounds like time well spent! Bravo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davio Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I suspect a rhetorical question but you should tell us what, having been there, it was like. Didn't he just do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric VB Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 I suspect a rhetorical question but you should tell us what, having been there, it was like. Didn't he just do that? Don't confuse us with the facts, davio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy c Posted June 29, 2009 Author Share Posted June 29, 2009 Listen for yourself. link to mp3 Free download of my cd!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottom End Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 THat was some beautiful music, thanks. "Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you cannot play upon me.'-Hamlet Guitar solos last 30 seconds, the bass line lasts for the whole song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 I suspect a rhetorical question but you should tell us what, having been there, it was like. Didn't he just do that? Don't confuse us with the facts, davio! Don't know how I missed that. d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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